Antinicotine cigarette holder



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ANTINICOTINE CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed July 5, 1947 ZSnventor Otzfa 6. Bran/new (Ittomeg Patented July 18, 1950 ANTINICOTINE CIGARETTE HOLDER Otto G. Brawner, Fort Worth, Tex., assignor of two-thirds to J. L. Breathwit, Dallas, Tex.

I Application July 5, 1947, Serial No. 759,184

This invention relates to smokers articles and more particularly to cigarette and cigar holders designed and constructed to intercept products of condensation such as tobacco tars in their passage from the burning tobacco to the smokers mouth.

The principal object of the invention is toprovide a cigar or cigarette holder or pipe stem whose peculiar construction obviates the necessity for a filter employed in some cases to ab-v sorb or modify the efiect of nicotine and harmful tars present in smoking tobacco. The invention aims instead to provide a sectional holder in which the sections each are provided with a longitudinal passage and interconnecting parts, the passage in at least one of the sections being closed except for lateral smoke inlets and outlets or parts, to define a chamber for entrapment of products of condensation harmful to the smoker. Other of the sections, by virtue of their manner of joining, one with the other, produce additional traps for the same purpose and constrain the smoke to pass in a circuitous course from the burning tobacco to the smokers mouth comparatively free of injurious components.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cigarette or cigar holder or pipe stem whose sectional parts are easily assembled and as easily disassembled for cleaning, thus affording a holder which can be kept in a sanitary condition and comparatively free of the strong and obnoxious tobacco odors usually attending devices of this nature.

With the foregoing objects in view, the invention has further reference to certain features of accomplishment which will become apparent as the description proceeds, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of the invention assembled.

Figure 2 is a view showing all of the parts of the holder separated.

Figure 3 is a view in longitudinal section.

Figure 4 is a view in transverse section, taken on line 44 on Figure 3.

Figure 5 is another view in transverse section, taken on line 55 on Figure 3, and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary view, partly in longitudinal section, showing the course of smoke through the principal sections of the holder.

Continuing with a more detailed description of the drawing, it is to be observed that for purposes of explanation, the invention is shown as embodied in a cigar or cigarette holder, it being obvious that the same general arrangement can be embodied in a pipe stem. Accordingly,

1 Claim. (01. 131-212) reference numeral Ill denotes a tubular section adapted to receive a cigar or cigarette and whose walls are straight. One end of this tube is telescopically received in the end of a similar but larger tube ll. Enclosed within the two tubes Ill and H is a core l2 having a reduced portion I3 which is received by and frictionally held in the inner end of the first tube It]. The end ll of the core I 2 next adjacent to the portion l3 thereof is further reduced in diameter to define an annular space l5 between the same and the inner walls of the tube In for the purpose to be presently explained.

The core l2 has an annular shoulder 16 abutting against the inner end of tube l0 and its opposite end I! is tapered, as shown and provided with longitudinal, circumferentially spaced grooves l8 whose purpose will be explained later.

The tapered end I! of the core I2 provides an annular space l9 between the same and the inner walls of the tube I l into which is inserted one end of a sleeve 20 whose walls are preferably expanded at the midsection of the sleeve but not necessarily so. The end of tube ll frictionally engages the exterior surface of sleeve 20 while the inner end of the latter frictionally engages the tapered end of the core l2. The reduced end 2| of a bit 22 is frictionally retained in the 0pposite end of the sleeve 20.

The core I 2 has a longitudinal passage 23 therethrough but its ends are closed by plugs 24, the only openings to the passage 23 being ports 25 at one end and ports 26 at the opposite end, positioned at right angles to ports 25. Thus, the passage 23 becomes a trap for products of condensation as will become apparent presently.

From the foregoing, it is apparent that smoke from a cigar or cigarette mounted in the end of tube In will, upon suction through the bit 22, pass into the annular space l5 between the ex-- tremity of the core l2 and tube 10 and will enter the trap 23 of the core l2 through ports 25. The smoke will emerge from the trap 23 through ports 26, entering the annular space I9 about the tapered end of the core. From this space, which is also a trap for tar deposits, the smoke will enter the sleeve 20 through the grooves l8 of the core and will pass into the smokers mouth through the bit 22 comparatively free of injurious substances contained originally in the smoke and which, for the most part, have been deposited on the walls of the various passages through which the smoke is constrained to flow. Condensation will collect in the closed passages or traps such as at 23 and I9, to be cleaned out periodically by separating the sections of the holder.

Manifestly, the construction as shown and described is capable of some modification and such modification as may be construed to fall Within the scope and meaning of the appended claim is also considered to be within the spirit and intent of the invention.

What is claimed is:

A cigarette holder including a plurality of sections held frictionally in end to end relationship,

the smallest one of said sections comprising a tube defining a cigarette socket, another of said sections comprising a tube receiving said smallest tube, a hollow core having smoke inlet ports in communication with said smallest tube, one end thereof being frictionally held inlthe end of said smallest tube and concealed by the latter and the next adjacent tube, said core further having a tapered, longitudinally grooved end, a sleeve having one end frictionally engaging the tapered end of said core and. the adjacent end Oif said next adjacent tube and enclosing the said tapered portion of said core to define a condensation trap and to constrain smoke entering said core to pass through the grooves of the latter into said sleeve, and a bit retained in the opposite end of said sleeve.

O'I'I'O G. BRAWNER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,189,690 Heller July 4, 1916 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 23,715 Denmark Oct. 28, 1918 359,192 France May 3, 1905 6,372 Great Britain 1914 22,087 Great Britain 1'89'7 

